Media messages : what film, television, and popular music teach us about race, class, gender, and sexual orientation / Linda Holtzman, Leon Sharpe ; with the assistance of Joseph Farand Gardner.
1. The connections : life, knowledge, and media -- Personal experience -- Reconstructing knowledge -- The process of socialization -- Social Cognitive Theory -- The social self -- Liberation Theory -- Cultural Competence Theory -- The fabric of oppression -- The cycle of socialization -- Entertainment media -- Entertainment Assessment theories -- The processes of selection -- Media literacy -- Cultural studies -- Analysis of media production and economy -- Cultural indicators analysis -- Entertainment assessment tools -- Character investigation -- Examination of themes -- 2. Gender : in pink and blue and vivid color -- Personal experience and gender -- Reconstructing knowledge and gender -- Gender and U.S. history -- The Women's MOvement and feminism -- Education : what you know and how you know it -- Gender disparities in employment, income, and occupational status -- Gender identity and self-esteem -- Gender Theory -- Consequences of socialization of men and women -- Gender and entertainment media -- Prime-time television content analysis -- Television as a tool of culture -- Prime-time television : employment and economics -- Gender ideology in entertainment media -- Film -- Gender and popular music -- The complexity of gender targeting -- Gender diversity and social power -- 3. Is the United States a classless society? -- Personal experience and class -- Reconstructing knowledge and class -- Early U.S. history -- The Twentieth Century -- The Great Depression -- Post-World War II -- Indicators of class in the United States in the mid- to late Twentieth Century -- The Twenty-First Century -- Causes of the Great Recession -- A snapshot of the consequences of the Great Recession -- High cost of being poor -- The American Dream -- From invisible to visible : class and the "Occupy" Movement -- Entertainment media and class -- Prime-time television and class -- Popular film -- A brief history of class in feature films -- Music and class -- Audience segmentation through radio and the Internet -- Musical genres -- Popular music -- 4. Racing in America : fact or fiction? -- Linda's story -- Leon's story -- Meeting at the crossroads : how our stories converge -- The American racial discourse : then and now -- Reconstructing knowledge and race -- Theories and constructs of race -- The social and psychological impact of race -- The science and pseudoscience of race -- Stories and counterstories : decoding the master script -- Stories of race, racism, and resistance in the United States -- American Indians -- African Americans -- African civilization and the European slave trade -- The enslaved family -- Contemporary conditions for African Americans -- Latinas;Latinos or Hispanics -- Mexican Americans or Chicanos -- Puerto Ricans -- Cuban Americans -- Asian Americans -- Chinese Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Southeast Asians -- Multiracial Americans -- European Americans or Whites -- Becoming white in America -- White privilege, internalized White Supremacy, and the benefits of being considered white in the United States -- White allies -- 5. Stories of race in popular culture -- Entertainment media and race -- American Indians in entertainment media -- Prime-time television and American Indians -- American Indians and film -- Asians and Pacific Islanders in entertainment media -- Asians and Pacific Islanders and popular music -- Asians and Pacific Islanders and film -- Asians and Pacific Islanders and prime-time television -- Latinas/Latinos in entertainment media -- Latinas/Latinos and film -- Latinas/Latinos and television -- African Americans in entertainment media -- African Americans and film -- African Americans and popular music -- African Americans and prime-time television -- 6. Sexual orientation and the fabrication of "normal" -- Personal experience -- Linda's story -- Leon's story -- Reconstructing knowledge and sexual orientation -- Terminology and its evolution -- Theories and history of sexual orientation in the United States -- Sexual orientation in U.S. history -- Before World War II -- After World War II -- Stonewall and its aftermath -- Developments in the Twenty-first Century -- Religion and sexual orientation -- Protestant perspectives on sexual orientation -- Catholic perspectives on sexual orientation -- Jewish perspectives on sexual orientation -- Islamic perspectives on sexual orientation -- Sexual orientation and entertainment media -- The popular media industry and sexual orientation -- Prime-time television and sexual orientation -- Popular music and sexual orientation -- Sexual orientation and film.
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